Business
EMC Metals and Jervois Mining Ltd. Receive the NI 43-101 Technical Report for the Nyngan Gilgai Scandium Deposit
EMC Metals and Jervois Mining Ltd. Receive the NI 43-101 Technical Report for the Nyngan Gilgai S...
About this update from Scandium International Mining Corp.
[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nVANCOUVER, Mar. 30, 2010 (Canada NewsWire Group) -- /CNW/ -- EMC Metals Corp. (TSX:EMC) (the \"Company\") is pleased to announce that it has received a NI 43-101 technical report and mineral resource estimate for its Nyngan Gilgai Scandium property in New South Wales, Australia. EMC is developing this property in a joint venture with Jervois Mining Ltd. (Jervois) of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The full report will be filed with SEDAR.Mr. Willem Duyvesteyn, an EMC director and its Chief Technical Officer added: \"We believe that the development of this Scandium ore body could not have come at a more timely moment. Governments worldwide are advocating clean energy and one of the technologies that is gaining widespread acceptance is the rapid development of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells. These fuel cells are using yttria stabilized zirconia as an electrolyte. For optimum performance, these cells run at an operating temperature of more than 800 degrees Celsius, resulting in a short cell life due to anode and/or cathode deterioration. Scandia stabilized zirconia will not only reduce the operating temperature by several hundred degrees, but recently has been shown to more than double the power density (and hence substantially lower capital costs) as compared with conventional electrolyte materials for SOFC's. This was recently confirmed by ESL Electroscience (http://www.electroscience.com/). SOFC are expected to provide a major role in the developing fuel cell powered electric transportation industry (cars, trucks, trains, etc) as well as in stationary applications, using SOFCs as electricity generators in substitution of coal fired power plants or directly in the home/small business through a distributed power generating system.\"The following resource estimate has been calculated for the Nyngan Gilgai deposit:-------------------------------------------------------------------------Resource Category Cut -off Sc Total Tonnes Grade Sc Overburden Ratio(ppm) (ppm)-------------------------------------------------------------------------Measured 100 2,718,000 274 0.81:1Indicated 100 9,294,000 258 1.40:1Total 100 12,012,000 261 1.10:1-------------------------------------------------------------------------Notes: From NI43-101 Technical Report on the Nyngan Gilgai Scandium Project, Jervois Mining Limited, New South Whales, Australia. (R...